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Proving that fake news is getting credibility (no, I’m not talking about Dan Rather, thank you very much), the University of Pennsylvania’s National Annenberg Election Survey shows that viewers of The Daily Show are more aware of candidates’ positions on issues than those who don’t watch late-night TV. Polling conducted between July 15 and Sept.…

Good Lord. (rimshot) The RNC has now admitted that they sent mailings in West Virginia claiming that Democrats want to ban the Bible.

Marty Schwimmer: “Email is becoming unusable as a business tool.“ Marty: it’s even worse than just commercial e-mail; occupational spam is an equally hard problem to solve. Give Socialtext a try…

Dahlia Lithwick picks apart the horrendous bungling of the Hamdi case by the US DOJ. Keep in mind: we’re supposed to be exporting our wonderful system of laws to other countries right now (I think we’re still in the “nation building is good” phase). If that system were so darned good, why does our own…

CNN. Oil closes near record high at ~$49. The price of oil is an objective measure of the health of globalization. It begs the question: who is winning? [John Robb’s Weblog] A follow-on point, made by Larry at ArchPundit: If OPEC can’t significantly affect the price of oil when it can increase supply by 1.5…

Denise points out how every ASP should handle its service outages: with humor. A sample:

Ernie points to an interesting debate over whether John Edwards’ career as a trial lawyer is a good thing or a bad thing when it comes to being a candidate for Vice President. Like Ernie, I can’t claim to be too invigorated by the presidential campaign at this point…

One Man compares the Keyes Internet strategy with Obama’s Internet strategy. Full disclosure: I helped start the Obama blog, but once the campaign took operations inhouse they didn’t need my help. I’d like to see the Obama team do more with the Internet; they’re sitting on a gold mine. But as a practical matter, they…

[W]hat are the rules for online search engines, where millions of users are turning for their daily news fix? Does evenhanded coverage apply in the bottomless news hole of cyberspace? Does having an editorial team or an automated program get you a better sweep of important news about the political candidates? These are tricky questions.…

While chatting in IRC today with Chris Dent (a new co-worker at Socialtext), I mentioned that about 15 years ago I once bought a book solely because upon reading the first sentence in the bookstore I noticed the word “obstreperously.” Now, I had read a few of this author’s books before, so I was generally…